Modified Minors?

I'd say a well sorted traveller with an engine it depending on the type of driving you want to do. If you're MPG concious and only intending to do low mileage pootling to the local shops then a upgraded A series will do. I intend to so some serous miles and a bit of track action so I've got a 200bhp zetec.

I drove mine everyday with it's 1098 A series for 8 years without any trouble but regular motorway journeys between Maidstone and Birmingham could be a ballache

Common engine swaps used to be Fiat twin cams but K-series go in happily but there's been a trend towards zetecs of late. 4A-GE powered minors are also pretty common in New Zealand www.minormania.com/feature.php?catid=756&id=2131

My recommendation is buy the very best one that's been modified already and rebuild to suit. JLH are worth checking out and have recently sent a couple of K powered travellers to Japan. If you want a V8 then you'll be looking at a separate chassis again buy an old one with a V5

haha, this is actually a photoshop I did last year, glad to see someone likes it

My Friend Jim has an Alfa 1750 sprider powered Morris Minor MM 2 dr - its a 1950 split screen, with the later spec Morris Minor II wings and grill etc. It was built in the early 70's when the car cost him £1!

He last had it out 15 years ago (it lives in huge lockup/garage on his back garden along with a 4.2 Jag powered Zephyr & a few capri's, sd1's p5b's my p5 saloon and several older volvos inc a 164!) when he took it too a morris minor owners club meet at Camperdown park. He was asked to leave for destroying such an early car. We left, in a sideways drift back up the grass and left a nice number 11!

Its painted in a ford metallic green with slot mags and shagpile crpet - so 70's it hurts!

Thats the one - he doenst like bring it out any more because he got slated for destroying such an early car. He takes it for an MOT every year then puts it back away.

Yeah its an odd colour didnt know whether to describe it as Green or gold. He use to by my old techie teacher at Crieff High between 1991 & 1999 (and its his fault I went and said hello to my now Swmbo!)

The story of the car goes that he was driving the minor at about 40 miles and hour when this alfa spider went flying passed him - 3 corners later and the alfa is wrapped round a tree with 2 very shaken germans in it. They asked for a lift to the next town and gave Jim the remains of the spider as a thank you as their ferry was leaving soon! He cut the alfa up and used a couple of spare mini radiators under the floor to aid cooling through the std minor radiator and used a cast iron bed fram as strengthening of the chassis. The front end is pure minor, but the back axle, prop, brakes and gearbox are all alfa. meaning 2 different stud patterns on the car. So he got Wolfrace to make him a set of slot mags with the right offsets and the correct stud patterns to the rims match!

Next time you see him ask him about his Jag engine Viva HB - and see his eyes light up - tell him Duracel (Cel for short) told you to say hi!

My humble advice,for what it's worth is to get a pre 53 two door spliot screen saloon.. If you can find ,or afford, a 49/50 MM lowlight so much the better. Do not think that all moggies are the same. After 1960 the quality went seriously downhill with shocking panel gap fitting and thin and inadequate paint. What ever you get it will have rust or rot somwhere on the shell and ,usually, have cover panel repairs and terrible MOT 'pass' bodges. Forget all the mechanical condition as you must have a solid well structurally correct basis first. Just have a look at this 'roller. Totally scrap although it 'looked' fine and would have nearly passed an MOT . Believe me ,please,the earlier the MOggy the better it is,and split screens with small rear windows are genuine MOggies and not later big window'commitees'. You can fit a whole range of engines and suspensions.Iwent down the TF route/

^Love the ring through the bonnet crest on the orange one, a nice nod to the old Morris 'Bullnose' and to a pretty hot little Moggy.

Some stunners there.

Just had a chat with Jim. It was a vw colour he painted his minor. It was a HA & he didn't build it - he bought it from Dunc. Then swopped it for a Scimitar!